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Is it not? OK, my mistake. What predictive ratings do you like for baseball?

What the heck are you talking about? The baseball polls are biased, too. The rating systems are NOT biased. They're based on on-field results and performance, with no human input. During the football season, the analytical rating systems NEVER had Miami as anything close to a top 10 team...

...that's not the actual big picture. Is any of that SOS-adjusted? After Miami plays one more game, it will qualify for Boyd's World's ISR, which is a better predictive rating system than any of those (except maybe ELO? Not sure). But given how weird today's ISR looks, probably too early in...

Why did you dodge my question? What are the "bigger stakes" you're referring to? Since so much is on the line, it should be pretty easy for you to articulate what these massive stakes are. I criticize this team all the time. (Toral has been terrible, the middle relief has been pretty poor, most...

Here's the big picture for you: -Our RPI is 18th -Our SOS is 12th -Our ELO is 15th -The human rankings have us in the top 10 (at least the two that I've seen today, BA and D1) -We can all agree we have not played our best baseball yet -We can all agree this is a young team (20/35 players are...

Absolutely not. My mindset is in the overwhelming majority. There are a few dozen posters on this thread, yet Mark Light regularly draws thousands (pre-COVID). A bad product would eventually diminish that, but the majority of fans are there for the experience. But enlighten me, what are the...

Get a grip dude.

There is nothing for us to "accept". We are fans. We have no control over any of this. If you don't "accept" what you're watching, stop watching it. That's all there is to it. That's the only choice, and it's not that hard a choice. This is a hobby, so if you don't "accept" it, just find another...

Nice job dodging both questions. You could have just said, "yes defense is as important as pitching and yes we have the 13th best lineup in the ACC". Your answers indicate you don't believe those things, which is good, because that would be really silly. But if you need to go through mental...

LOL seriously? -3 run differential is basically a push. It's not meaningfully different than a 0 or +3 differential at this point in the season. Being at a push vs a schedule of tournament teams (including a national seed) and 2/3rd road games suggests that we are a solid tournament team and a...

Is defense as important as pitching? Yes/no And do you think Miami has the 13th best lineup in the ACC? Yes/no If your answer to those questions is yes, then I'll respect your opinion for being intellectually consistent, but I'll disagree with it.

Miami is 5-4 with a -3 run differential through 9 games. 3 road games vs a top 5 team, 3 home games vs a top 20 team, and 3 road games vs another likely tournament team. To have that record and that run differential vs. that schedule is pretty solid. It suggests Miami is basically a tournament...

This is such a dumb way to think about baseball, on multiple levels. First, not all "3 phases" are of equal importance. Pitching is much more important than defense. Miami having better pitching than NC St and NC St having better defense (in your opinion) is advantage-Miami. Second, being...